Global warming is on trial in a court of law, a case has to be presented to convince the Judge and jury that manmade global warming is real. Hearsay and circumstantial evidence is not be permitted.
• What solid evidence would you present to the court?
• Which expert witnesses / reports / sources would you rely on?
• What arguments would you used to counter skeptic’s claims?
Please see my similar question regarding the case against global warming.
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December 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Well that depends on who’s on the jury! But if you assume the jury is truly impartial (no deniers allowed), then yes, it most certainly should.
I made my case here:
http://www.ecohuddle.com/wiki/global-warming-and-climate-change-causes
The key pieces of evidence being the instrumental temperature record (both surface stations and satellites showing the warming of the surface), the cooling of the upper atmosphere, the greater warming during the night than day and winter than summer, and the dominant radiative forcing from CO2.
The IPCC report would make for a good ‘expert witness’, since it’s a summary of the state of climate science research. There are also tens of thousands of climate science experts who could be expert witnesses, such as James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt, Rasmus Benestad, Stefan Rahmstorf, Ray Pierrehumbert, Ken Caldeira, etc. etc.
My arguments to counter skeptics’ claims are here:
http://www.ecohuddle.com/wiki/global-warming-myths
December 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Some scientific information revealing the truth about global warming, when it happened and what probably caused it. And as well how many years, centuries or millennia it might be before the world warms up again from the coming ice age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:0Master_Past_20000yrs_temperatures_icecore_Vostok_150dpi.png
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/global_warming.html
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
http://reasonmclucus.tripod.com/CO2myth.html
http://mc-computing.com/qs/Global_Warming/Atmospheric_Analysis.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation
Where the heat came from and why it was abnormally cold previously
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~dbunny/research/global/215.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_minimum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
December 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Agree with Dana. It depends on the judge and jury.
December 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
There are real people primarily in island nations that are experiencing the rapid effects of sea level rise. We can actually look at the polar ice caps and see them melting away. Salt water is contaminating their fresh water supply. These small and otherwise powerless nations will disappear sooner then later. A hundred million years to form, a hundred years to be lost…well maybe the artificial reef will be good.
Here is a partial list of national agencies and accomplished professionals, industries, THE PENTAGON, media, etc…. that all say climate change is real and creates an impending threat. Maybe they are all bullies and MAYBE they realize this change in climate is going to kill us all.
http://www.logicalscience.com/consensus/consensus.htm
December 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
You conveniently left out the man made part of the question.
There are real people primarily in island nations that are experiencing the rapid effects of sea level rise.
Precisely which island nations and what effects?
December 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Sorry I can’t resist remarking as an aside that I wonder just how long the case would take and whether anyone present would remotely understand the mathematical physics of the calculations quantifying the effect of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere (other than any mathematical physicists). Even if the case lasted twenty years I venture to say there would be people on both sides saying that they had more to say that had not been said before.